I'd like to know if the fibrotic tissue built up in the quadricepts?

from repeated meperidine injections can be loosened by physical therapy or if it needs surgery. I have been taking scripted meperidine injections for over a decade to stop breakthrough migraine pain. The majority of the quadriceps muscle in both legs has been replaced by fibrotic tissue. I can no longer bend my legs at the knees. This has caused me to fall at the slightest mis-step, including up and down the stairs, and has thrown my back out. Walking is now extremely painful. For a long time, I would forceably bend them, trying to stretch them, but the range of motion has continued anyway. My right leg bends only a few degrees and my left leg bends about 45 degrees. Has anyone else had this problem and found a way to return function to their legs?thanks,Faded time

Thanks for your answer. Neither my Dr. nor I wanted to use narcotics of any kind to control my daily migraines, but nothing else would work. At first it was just my right leg, and it was just a limp. At the time, I thought it was from the odd positions I have to sleep in to avoid more head pain. I didn't make the connection until I noticed how hard the tissue was in a relaxed state. I guess it was a case of no good choices. I don't take them every day, just for rescues when my daily medication fails. Faded time

Do you move the injection around your thigh so that the spot you hit yesterday and the day before isn't the spot you hit today? I've never seen anyone use demerol for that length of time. I find that it gives me a pounding headache. It just seems like he'd have better choices then that in this day and age.

I don't take it every day. It works out to be about every four days. I try to rotate legs and injection sites. Demerol is old school and not recommended for migraines, but when nothing else helps, there is no choice. We spent months trying one drug after another. Once in the hospital they gave me injectable dilaudid, and even that didn't stop it. I guess we all metabolize drugs differently. My Dr. has spoken to other pain management places and gone to the continuing ed courses, but so far, there isn't anything we haven't tried. Some of the drugs have adverse effects as well. There comes a point where you have to come to terms with using what works and stop playing guinea pig. It would be nice to have my legs back though. Walking used to be my main reliever of stress. Faded time